One HEAT Minute: Episode #30 - Manohla Dargis

It's the 30th episode of ONE HEAT MINUTE, the podcast examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT minute by minute (29:00-30:00). Host Blake Howard is joined, in his opinion, by the world's greatest living film critic Manohla Dargis. Blake and Manohla discuss the figure of the 'romantic gangster' and how we allow our favourite filmmakers their fantasy, even when it comes to rent.

Manohla Dargis - Chief Film Critic at The New York Times

Manohla Dargis grew up in the East Village in New York where she attended public school and was a frequent attendee at both St. Mark’s Cinema and Theater 80. She started writing about movies professionally in 1987 while earning her M.A. in cinema studies at New York University. A class with the longtime Village Voice critic J. Hoberman led to her being hired to write about avant-garde cinema for the Voice. She kept on writing and since then has written about a lot of movies for a lot of publications and her work has been anthologized in several books. She has been the co-chief film critic for The New York Times since 2004. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. (Bio via The New York Times)